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[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Strange Anthropomorphic Creature with Dagger and Staff [Image #016]
[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Strange Anthropomorphic Creature with Dagger and Staff [Image #016]
Kishangarh, Rajasthan: no date (modern). [#016] Gouache painting on recycled paper. This image is of an anthropomorphic creature with four arms, two of which are holding a dagger and a staff. Creature has four horns(?). Is this a djinn, or just a wild vision from the artist's imagination? In the background are what appear to be words or phrases in Devangari script, possibly more decorative than textual. The size of this image is approximately 8 x 10 inches including margins. Very good.
Joshi Mangal is a painter from Kishangarh in Rajasthan (India). His body of work is based on the artistic styles found in bazaars in his community and inflected by his idiosyncratic taste for sensational images of tantric art. He paints images of tantric goddesses, circular yantra designs, astrological images, various body parts used for divination (hands and feet), and more.
